Description Of The Plates. Plate B : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate B. PLATE B. 1. Abraxas, represented here with the head of an "ass", and thereby identified with Typhon, a singular perversion of ancient ideas. This gem is valuable as distinctly declaring its purpose by the legend on the p...
Woodcuts In The Text : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 432 WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT. "Frontispiece. Ceraunia of green jade, converted into a Gnostic talisman described at p. 197. Presented to the Repository, Woolwich, by General Lefroy. "Title-page. The Ophite version of the "Good...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 12 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], DIFFUSION OF ORIENTAL CULTURE The constant intercourse between Syria and Europe, maintained first by the flocks of pilgrims perpetually crowding to Jerusalem, then by the Crusades, and lastly by the establishment of the Frankish...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 05 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE EARLIEST MASONIC DOCUMENT The language of this Act is sufficiently conclusive, but for accumulation of proofs, I shall proceed to establish the same position by giving a summary of the "oldest", and only "genuine" document...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 10 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 303 PART IV. THE FIGURED MONUMENTS OF GNOSTICISM. p. 304 . p. 305 THE FIGURED MONUMENTS OF GNOSTICISM. GNOSTIC SIGL, SYMBOLS, LEGENDS EXPLAINED. THE inscriptions in Greek characters upon Gnostic talismans are frequently...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 07 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 329 ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THESE FORMUL. The "interpretation" of Gnostic legends and the nature of the deity to whom they were addressed have been thus far the subjects of our inquiry: the next step is to search contemporary...
Description Of The Plates. Plate J. Subjects : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate J PLATE J. SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE MITHRAIC MYSTERIES. 1. This pretty design may be tersely described in a line of Manilius-- "Quadrijugis et Phbus equis et Delia bigis." [paragraph continues] Sol and Luna in their...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 08 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE ILLUMINATI As for the transmission of these symbols, the question would be at once settled should we accept the bold declaration of Lessing, for which, however, we have only his own authority ("Fortsetzung des Ernst." p. 53):...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 03 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], STATE AFTER DEATH OF THE UNINITIATED. (261) "Then stood forth Mary and said, Lord, as concerning just men and perfect in all righteousness; such a man in whom there is no sin at all, shall they torment him with all these...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 16 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], IDOLS OF BAPHOMET But it is now full time to return to Von Hammer's Baphometic Idols, and his profound interpretations of their figures and inscriptions. It is obvious at the first glance that the idea of most of them w...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 02 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], FUTURE PUNISHMENTS. The Gnostics did not fail, after the example of their orthodox rivals, to employ the strongest stimulants of terror in order to gain converts, as is forcibly manifested by this picture of the varied torments...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 06 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 341 GNOSTIC THEOGONY. The several grades in the Gnostic Theogony, through all of which the soul had to pass before it could attain to supreme perfection, are briefly set before us in this passage of the Pistis Sophia (247):...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 04 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], NO RELATION OF MODERN MASONS TO MEDIVAL GUILDS An interesting feature in the treatise is the fact of its ascribing these same "Constitutions" to King Athelstan. There is very good reason for accepting this statement as founded...
Description Of The Plates. Plate F. Ancient : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate F PLATE F. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TYPES ADAPTED TO GNOSTIC IDEAS. It is in this class that the influence of Judaism is more strongly marked than in any other family of these monuments. These gems were designed as amulets against...
Preface : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. v PREFACE. WHEN this work first appeared, three-and-twenty years ago, it became at once an object of unmerited abuse, and of equally unmerited praise. Small divines mistaking it for an insidious attempt to overthrow opinions...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 10 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], MITHRAICISM The strange and obscene * ceremonies observed on the admission of neophytes into the various secret societies that p. 421 flourished under the Lower Empire and in the Middle Ages are all of them no more than faint...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 14 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE ASSASSINS But Gnosticism in one shape or other, was still surviving in the very head-quarters of the Order, amongst their closest allies or enemies, the mountaineers of Syria. The Templar-Order had been modelled after...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Gnosticism : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 21 GNOSTICISM IN ITS BEGINNING. To begin with the received account of the RISE AND PROGRESS of the Gnostic "philosophy", for that is its proper appellation, "heresy" being properly restricted to differences of opinion between...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 08 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 328 ABRAXAS, NEW TYPE OF. A most singular variation upon the normal type of the Abraxas pantheus gives him the head of Serapis for that of the usual cock. In the field between the serpents are the genital organs...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. The Book : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE BOOK OF ENOCH. This most ancient (as it professes) of the Hebrew Scriptures being so frequently referred to as the highest authority by the on Pistis-Sophia, a brief summary of its doctrine seems to form the necessary...
Description Of The Plates. Plate O. Hindoo : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate O PLATE O. HINDOO SYMBOLS AND CASTE-MARKS. I. "No". 1. Type of Mahadeva or Siva. Fire personified. "No". 2. Type of Vishnu: Water. "No". 3. The "Sherkun": symbol of the union of the two Elements. No. 4. The five-pointed...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Influence : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], INFLUENCE OF JUDAISM ON THE ANCIENT WORLD. People in these times are still so influenced by the ideas engendered by the fifteen centuries of ecclesiastical "rgime", during which hatred and contempt for the Jewish race formed an p...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 02 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], ORIGIN OF MODERN FREEMASONRY Having thus briefly noticed our Masonic Symbols, let us proceed to consider the society itself, and here a circumstance of the utmost importance to this inquiry must always be kept in view:...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 06 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], NOTE: I have supplied section breaks in Part V. These titles are in green type--JBH p. 373 PART V. TEMPLARS, ROSICRUCIANS, FREEMASONS. "Inscriptiones" propter quas vadimonium deseri possit: at cum intraveris, Di Deaeque! quam...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 04 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE CAUSE OF SIN. (Pist.--Soph. 282). "And when the Saviour had spoken these things, he continuing in his discourse said unto Mary: Now, therefore Mary, hear concerning the thing wher thou askest of me, Who is it th...
Description Of The Plates. Introduction : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 435 DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. THE drawings were, for the most part, made from gems in the Praun Cabinet, now transferred to the British Museum, some few from my own collection, now in the Museum of Art, New York...
Description Of The Plates. Plate K. Mithraic : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate K PLATE K. MITHRAIC ("CONTINUED"). 1. Circular copper plate, of the same size as the drawing, bearing the name of "Aurelius Furellius", the person for whose benefit the talisman was devised. It represents a female figure...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 10 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], II. ABRAXOIDS, OR GEMS CONFOUNDED WITH THE TRUE GNOSTIC. Our invaluable and most charming guide, Hippolytus, when describing the "Astrotheoscopi", "Seekers of God in the stars," begins with a simile more apposite th...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 04 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 176 THE "CADUCEUS", AND ITS SYMBOLISM. Macrobius seems to afford us some clue for solving this enigma by his remarks upon the true universality of the sun-worship under different names (Sat. i. 19). "That under the form...
Description Of The Plates. Plate E. Monuments : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate E PLATE E. MONUMENTS OF THE SERAPIS WORSHIP. 1. Serapis, viewed as the Sun-god, enthroned; at his feet, the triple-headed monster described by Macrobius. Before him stands Isis, or Mother Earth, holding a bunch...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 12 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 122 II. THE MITHRAIC SACRAMENTS. The principal rites of the worship of Mithras bore a very curious resemblance to those subsequently established in the Catholic church; they likewise furnished a model for the initiatory...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 06 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], V. "ABRAXAS"--ETYMOLOGY OF. Of this "Great Name," many etymologies have been proposed. Of all these the most satisfactory is perhaps the one offered by Rabbi Abraham Geiger, making it the Grecised form of "Ha-Brachah", "...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 02 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 274 ABRAXAS-GEMS, THEIR MATERIALS, WORKMANSHIP, AND NATURE. Following the axiom, "that the body is more than the raiment," the foregoing chapters have been devoted to the consideration of the notions which our talismans have...
Description Of The Plates. Plate G. Egyptian Types : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate G PLATE G. EGYPTIAN TYPES ("CONTINUED"). 1. In this composition an element from a little-used source is introduced. The Grecian Apollo, distinguished by his proper attribute, the bay-branch, is seen caressing the Ibis...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 08 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 156 ST. AUGUSTINE ON GNOSTICISM. The transition from orthodoxy to Gnosticism, in its last and most elaborate phase is well pointed out by the following reminiscences of St. Augustine, describing his own experiences. In his...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. The Kabbal : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE KABBALA AND THE TALMUD. The origin of the Kabbala is placed by most authors much later than that of Christianity; and, indeed, it is not impossible that its doctrines may have received great developments "after" that epoch; *...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 02 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 191 TOMB-TREASURES. Serapis, in his double character of God of Death and God of Riches, has been the subject of preceding chapters; the present one shall be devoted to the consideration of the most striking method by which...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 08 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 248 GNOSTIC PLAQUE. The most remarkable specimen of the class known to me was obtained (Jan. 1876) from Sambon, a noted "antiquario" at Naples. It is a circular bronze disc, 2 inches (the ancient "palmus") in diameter, with...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 12 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE CHNUPHIS SERPENT. A Limoges enamelled plaque of the twelfth century (in the collection of Mr. Octavius Morgan) represents on its one half "Moyses" lifting up the Brazen Serpent to the "Filii Israel." On the other half...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Simonianism : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 58 SIMONIANISM. "It is my intention here to exhibit the system of Simon Magus, a native of Gitteh in Samaria, and I will prove that from him all those that come after have derived the elements of their doctrines...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 06 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 165 II. THE PROBABLE ORIGIN OF SERAPIS. The ancient speculations cited in the preceding chapter are all baseless theories, due to the ingenious refinements of the Alexandrian literati, and springing out of the system...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 10 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], IV. MITHRAIC TALISMANS. Mithraic gems are, for the most part, earlier in date than those emanating from the Gnosticism of Alexandria, with whose doctrines they had no connection whatever in their first origin. Little difficulty...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Gnosticism. Part 02 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 1 PART I. GNOSTICISM AND ITS SOURCES. p. 2 , , , , , , , , "Ophite Hymn", (Hippolytus, v. 10.) "Non puleggio da piccola barca Quel che fendendo va l' ardita prora, N da nocchier ch' a s medesmo parca." (Dante, "Parad". xxiii...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 04 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 257 THE ABRAXAS RELIGION. That most philosophic of the Fathers, Hippolytus, commences his account of the systems of Basilides and his successors with this ingenious and appropriate simile: "It behoves all their hearers...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Pistis Sophia : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 14 PISTIS-SOPHIA. This treatise, ascribed to Valentinus (I know not on what authority), was discovered by Schwartze in a Coptic MS. preserved in the British Museum. He transcribed the Coptic text and translated it into Latin;...
Description Of The Plates. Plate L. Mithraic : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate L PLATE L. MITHRAIC ("CONTINUED"). 1. The Mithraic Lion, moving through the stars of heaven. The reverse exhibits a complete assemblage of the "Sigl" that are found, dispersed, upon so many talismans. That they st...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. The Ophites : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 82 THE OPHITES. The Ophites should hold by right the first place amongst the schools we are considering, for that impartial and acute historian of the Gnosis, Hippolytus, styles them, "The Naaseni who specially call themselves...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 14 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 197 II. ON A CERAUNIA OF JADE CONVERTED INTO A GNOSTIC TALISMAN. Few relics of antiquity combine in one so many and so widely differing points of interest, with respect to the material, the strangely dissimilar uses to which...
Description Of The Plates. Plate A. Various : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate A PLATE A. VARIOUS TYPES OF THE GOD ABRAXAS. 1. Abraxas brandishing a whip, to scare away malignant influences, his shield emblazoned with some word of power. Reverse, the usual Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 07 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 158 THE WORSHIP OF SERAPIS. I. THE FIGURED REPRESENTATIONS OF SERAPIS. The next great series of monuments to be considered are those emanating from the worship of Serapis, that mysterious deity, who, under his varying forms...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 13 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 213 PART III. ABRAXAS, ABRAXASTER, AND ABRAXOID GEMS. p. 214 p. 215 THE AGATHODMON WORSHIP "THERE was a time" (says M. Matter with much force) "when it was from Judaism, especially from the Kabbala, and the system of Philo...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 09 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 245 III. THE TRUE ABRAXAS GEMS. Having in the preceding sections cleared the ground of the innumerable usurpers of the title "Abraxas gems," we can conveniently proceed to consider the wondrous Sigil, the invention wher is...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 03 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 179 DEATH, AS DEPICTED IN ANCIENT ART. The King of the Shades has formed the subject of the preceding investigation. The natural sequence of ideas requires us to consider by what visible form ancient imagination expressed...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 195 GNOSTIC CONNECTION WITH SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICES. I. THE EVIL EYE. Serapis we have seen, in one of his representations lately noticed, specially invoked to defend his votary against the "Evil Eye" under its abstract title...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Indi : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 42 INDIAN SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM.--MANES. The "Persian" origin of so considerable a portion of the Gnosis having been set forth in the foregoing pages, it remains to show what portion is due to a purely "Indian" source...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 05 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], VI. ABRAXAS--ITS NUMERICAL FORCE. To find out some deep mystery expressed by the "numerical" value of the letters in a name is the grand foundation of the famous science of the Kabbala. Although the Jewish Talmudists now engross...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 11 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 130 III. A ROMAN MITHRAS IN HIS CAVE. "I remember there was found in the vineyard of Sig. Orazio Muti (where the treasure was discovered), opposite S. Vitale, an idol in marble about 5 palms high (3 ft.), standing erect up...
Introduction : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. xiii INTRODUCTION. THAT nothing upon the subject of Gnosticism should have hitherto been attempted in our language except by Dr. Walsh in his very meagre sketch (long since out of print), seemed to me a sufficient excuse...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Buddhism : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], BUDDHISM. For the sake of comparison with the above-described systems, all based upon the doctrine of successive "Emanations" from One First Principle, the means of escaping from the bondage of Matter, and the struggles...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Basilides : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], BASILIDES. Hippolytus, in accordance with his theses that all these "heresies" were mere plagiarisms from the more ancient philosophical systems, declares that Basilides stole the entire of his scheme from Aristotle, and proceeds...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 05 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], III. MONUMENTS OF THE SERAPIS WORSHIP. Innumerable are the statues, bas-reliefs, and gems, many of them in the best style of Roman art, emanating from the worship of Serapis; a thing not to be wondered at in the case...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 11 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 226 THE ABRAXAS. I. ABRAXASTER, OR BORROWED TYPES. Bellermann in his lucid little treatise, 'Drei Programmen ber die Abraxas-gemmen,' * has divided his subject into three parts--the true "Abraxas", all of which bear...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 280 LEGENDS AND FORMUL. Foremost in the rank of Words of Power stands the "Mystery of the Seven Vowels," so important as to demand a separate section for its discussion with befitting reverence. Though inferior to these, gre...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 09 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], V. GNOSTIC SACRAMENTS AND INITIATIONS AS CONNECTED WITH THE MITHRAIC. In my account of Mithraicism notice has been taken of the very prominent part that sacraments for the remission of sin play in the ceremonial of that religion;...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. The Zendavesta : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE ZENDAVESTA. The Zendavesta, literally "text and comment," is the doctrine of Zoroaster ("Zarathrustra"), comprised in eight parts, written at different periods, but of which the earliest have been assigned to the date of B.C...
Description Of The Plates. Plate M. General : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate M PLATE M. GENERAL TALISMANS. 1. Zodiacal Monster, compounded of Scorpio and Capricornus, carrying a legionary standard. Bearing in mind that the former "Sign" is under the patronage of Mars, according to Manilius--"Pugnax...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 03 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 266 THE INEFFABLE NAME IN THE HINDOO FORM. We have already seen how important a part the notion of an "Ineffable Name," denoting the inconceivable Supreme, plays in the machinery of the Gnosis, and here again the original ide...
Description Of The Plates. Plate H. Egyptian Types : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate H PLATE H. EGYPTIAN TYPES ("CONTINUED"). 1. Tortoise lying upon the lotus, which springs out of the back of a crocodile. The unexplained legend of the reverse occurs again in connection with an analogous design...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 359 TALISMANIC LEADEN SCROLLS. The only classical notice of the employment of these engines for moving the invisible world (not, however, for good, but for evil) is to be found in the Annals of Tacitus (ii. 69), who thus...
Part Iii. Abraxas, Abraxaster, And Abraxoid. Part 07 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], IV. THE GOD ABRAXAS AS DESCRIBED BY THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS. That the Pantheus upon our gems was really intended to picture forth the deity styled "Abraxas" can be established by the indirect evidence of many contemporary writers...
Part Ii. The Worship Of Mithras And Serapis. Part 13 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 113 PART II. THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS AND SERAPIS. p. 114 "O voi ch' avete gl' intelletti sani, Mirate la dottrina che s'asconde Sotto il velame degli versi strani." "Salve vera Dem facies, vultusque paterne, Octo et sexcentis...
Bibliographical Appendix : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 449 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX BY JOSEPH JACOBS, B.A. PART I.--GNOSTICISM AND ITS SOURCES, PP. 1-112. THE Gnostic heresies play so important a part in the Christianity of the first three centuries that they naturally come up...
Description Of The Plates. Plate N. General : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 446 Plate N PLATE N. GENERAL TALISMANS ("CONTINUED"). 1. Universal Nature, symbolised in a highly poetic manner, combining all her forces for the protection of the bearer. The "Eagle" of Jupiter (Air); the "Dolphins"...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 15 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], MANICHEISM "Manicheism" has been so repeatedly referred to in the foregoing pages, as to make it necessary to give a brief explanation of the way, in which that strange creed may possibly have affected the religi...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 09 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 319 THE NAME. Diodorus Siculus, when enumerating the different legislators of antiquity, says, "Amongst the Jews Moses pretended that the god surnamed "Iao" gave him his laws" (i. 94). And this is elucidated by the remark...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 11 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], PROFESSION OF CONTINENCE p. 419 A distinguishing feature of Gnosticism was the profession of continence, at least as far as regards the propagation of the human species, which was denounced to the "spiritual" as the doing...
Description Of The Plates. Plate D. Sigils : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate D PLATE D. SIGILS OF THE CNUPHIS SERPENT. This class of figures has no connection with Gnosticism considered as a development of Christianity; being nothing more than talismans for the protection of the chest, as I have...
Part Iv. The Figured Monuments Of Gnosticism. Part 05 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE SCHEME OF THE OPHITES. Gnostic symbols, with their uses in this life and in that to come have thus far been the subject of our investigation; which naturally leads us to consider the ideas that their devisers entertained...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 07 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], CONCLUSION The symbols, forming the proper subject of the present enquiry, embodied in their origin the deepest mysteries of Brahminical theosophy; they were eagerly accepted by the subtile genius of the Alexandrine school...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 03 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], MASONS' MARKS But to return to the marks themselves, of which many collections have been published gathered from regions the most widely separated. Their history is indeed full of interest but likewise of obscurity; "res alt...
Part I. Gnosticism And Its Sources. Machinery : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], p. 104 MACHINERY OF THE GNOSIS. The "doctrines" of the chief schools of Gnosticism having been fully described in the preceding sections, the next step in the natural order of things will be to consider the MACHINERY employed by...
Title Page : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], CERAUNIA OF GREEN JADE, CONVERTED INTO A GNOSTIC TALISMAN. (*) ("See page" 197.) THE GNOSTICS AND THEIR REMAINS, ANCIENT AND MEDIVAL. BY C. W. KING, M.A. (*) "Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia ccis In tenebris metuunt, sic...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 17 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE TEMPLARS In the second paragraph Clarkson * discovers an allusion to the Vesica Piscis, which is in truth a figure generated by two circles intersecting at their respective centres; and for the same reason, the secret sign...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 09 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE TRANSMISSION OF GNOSTIC SYMBOLS The foregoing considerations seem to furnish a reasonable solution of the problem set to the archologist in the continued existence of genuine Gnostic symbols (whether in their pristine...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE ROSICRUCIANS But although this Society of Freemasons was convoked in London, and established branches all over England, furnishing also the members with the means for secret recognition, and all for a political end, yet...
Part V. Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons. Part 13 : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], THE SUFIS The influence of the Crusades and their results upon the mind and life of medival Europe cannot possibly be exaggerated p. 414 [paragraph continues] The true masters of the Western barbarians in philosophy, science...
Untitled : * In the mid-19th century, eighty years before the chance discovery of a treasure trove of Gnostic manuscripts in a dump in Egypt, C.W. King collected what was known about the Gnostics in this book. At that time there were only three sources of information on Gnosticism: polemics against them by...
Description Of The Plates. Plate C : * "The Gnostics and Their Remains", by Charles William King, [1887], Plate C PLATE C. 1. Terminal figure, perhaps allusive by its form to Justinus' on, "The Cross." The interminable legend surrounding it yields no intelligible words, but the title below the Herme, occurs also on a talism...
